Thanks so much for all of your prompt responses!
You might also want to display bookcovers from new books in the library.
If you can't use the bookcovers--scan them and display. Put the call numbers next
to it in large numbers and letters.
ELS
Try using puzzlemaker.com to make a simple crossword with lib terms.
Then see if you can transfer to bulletin display.
ELS
I am a new media specialist, this being my first year. But I was thinking of doing
a "Get to Know Your Teachers" type of board.
I plan on handing out slips to the teachers at the first faculty meeting before
school starts asking for one interesting fact about
them (that they wouldn't mind students knowing) and also their favorite
book/author (for a later bulletin board). I would ask them
to hand me their slips before leaving the meeting. This will give me three days to
put the board together.
The board will have the faculty names listed on the left and right hand sides, and
in the middle I would have all of the interesting
facts in various bubbles or clouds. On the bottom of the board will be a headline
saying "Check back on September XXX to see
who these interesting facts belong to!
Hope that helps,
Alicia Boudreau
Library Media Specialist
Northbridge High School
Whitinsville, MA
alicia@boudreau.biz
I've been doing this for the last few years now...I send an email to my teachers
and ask for pictures of their kids (or themselves)
reading. I put all the pictures on my bulletin board- the students have fun trying
to figure out who the kids are.
Good luck,
Emily
Emily Smith, Librarian
JH West Elementary, NY
ESmith@plainedgeschools.org
Megan:
I have used puzzlemaker with terms to create the crossword. You just supply the
terms you want.
I taught science at the time, but you could use any terms you want.
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
<http://owa.estigers.k12.mo.us/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.puzzlemaker.com/>
Good luck!
Susie
shighley@aol.com
Indianapolis
Hi,
This year, I am going to put up the phase:
This library is all booked up!
and decorate the board with book jackets/pics of book
covers of the new books delivered over the summer.
How about a READ poster, surrounded by color copies of a few good book
covers?
Betty Winslow, Media Center Director
BGCA
Bowling Green, OH
bgcalib@wcnet.org
This idea has nothing to do with content. If you want a neat background, use
wrapping paper. I have so much wrapping paper
since my nieces sell Sally Foster each year for their school fundraiser. I saw
another teacher use wrapping paper on her bulletin
board, and it was beautiful! The con is that you have to match up pieces to help
maintain a pattern. It's not too hard though.
My principal also used wrapping paper on her bulletin board that's in her office.
Janice Askew
Media Coordinator
T. S. Cooper Elementary School
237 NC 32 South
Sunbury, NC 27979
jma0525@earthlink.net
Hi, Megan,
Last year for the start of school, I did a very easy bulletin board that I
kept up all year by keeping the main slogan and the main art piece.
I bought four or five towels and a wolf shower curtain with wild animals on
them. I got mine on sale from the National Wildlife Federation, but you
could probably get the same towels and shower curtain other places and maybe
for less.
Anyway, I printed and laminated a message that said "OSD is Wild About
Books." I used the wolf to howl that message. When authors came for visits,
I had the wolf howl that "OSD is wild about the author." When National
Library Week came, OSD was wild about that, too. Etc. for every major event
of the school year. After events happened, I put photos on the bulletin
board of the students enjoying the various events.
This was the easiest year I've had for bulletin boards.
Ada G. Kent, Librarian
Ohio School for the Deaf
Are you familar with this site:
www.puzzlemaker.com
Here's a quick word search I did for you as an example:
http://puzzlemaker.com/code/BuildWordSearch.asp
<http://owa.estigers.k12.mo.us/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://puzzlemaker.com/code/BuildWordSearch.asp>
If you go to the site and try different puzzle types, something may jump out at you
that would work for your room.
Good luck,
Diane
Megan Hagan
Librarian
Lewis Elementary/Elkhorn Elementary
Excelsior Springs, Missouri 64024
mhagan@estigers.k12.mo.us
Megan Hagan
Librarian
Lewis Elementary/Elkhorn Elementary
Excelsior Springs, Missouri 64024
mhagan@estigers.k12.mo.us
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